A Taste of Teamwork™| Teamwork Training Activity

• Teamwork skills
• Organisation strategies / devising a process
• Attention to detail
• Inter-team co-operation
• Free and open communication
• The importance of working as one big team
• Meeting a deadline

In this teamwork training activity, A Taste of Teamwork, two teams jointly represent the "Packing & Despatch Department" of a bakery supplying pies to retail outlets. (If running it with 13-24 delegates, you would have x2 lots of two teams - making four teams in total). The task involves ordering different kinds of pies from the baking department, processing customer orders, invoicing and packing up the orders, ready for despatch. Sounds easy

But carrying it out - on time and accurately - is a bit of a challenge! Things can so easily be overlooked, misinterpreted or mixed up. What’s needed is an overall process, clear communication, inbuilt checks and balances and everyone on board! Great fun, full of learning - and easy to facilitate.

1. Introduce the training activity (optional PowerPoint included) and organise the group into two or four teams (depending on your numbers).
2. Issue the Team Briefs and allow delegates to study their briefs.
3. Prepare the Order Cards (by removing the five 'Late Order' cards and after 10 minutes issue a pile of 10 Order Cards to each team.
4. Issue the other boxes to one team; the invoices forms to the other.
5. Observe teams in action but do not get involved in their interaction.
6. Stand by to 'bake' pies on request.
7. At the 40 minute point issue the five 'Late Order' cards and an Analysis Form to each team.
8. At the 60 minute point the delivery van arrives to collect the orders.
9. Check the boxes and invoices (the left-over pies will give you a quick indication of teams' accuracy!)
10. Conduct the debrief with the aid of the Trainer's Notes & PowerPoint.

Full guidance supplied in the Trainer’s Notes.

• Trainer’s Notes
• Trainer's PowerPoint
• Team 1 Briefs
• Team 2 Briefs
• Sets of Order Cards
• Post-It Style Pads
• Pie Boxes
• Plastic ‘Pies’
• Bakers' Hats
• Trainer’s Record
• Invoice Forms
• Analysis Forms

This activity is for face-to-face classroom use. It is supplied as a hard copy pack and the digital files are supplied via the Northgate Trainerhub.

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Upon purchase, each Northgate activity includes a five-year licence for repeat use, with up to a maximum number of delegates per training session. The maximum number of delegates permitted for this activity is 24. This grants you the freedom to use the activity repeatedly, with the specified maximum number of delegates, for five years.

All Learning and Development (L&D) professionals based at the same site (or ‘remote hub’) as you are granted access to these resources, including to the digital files on the Trainerhub via your site-specific Trainer Dashboard, fostering a collaborative spirit within your immediate team.

Should you wish to make this activity available to a wider audience within your organisation, additional licences are required. We understand the varying needs of different organisations and aim to provide flexible options to suit your requirements.

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